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Composer - PHP Dependency Manager

Master Composer the Tool used for Modern PHP Development and Create your own PHP Package

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Description

In this series you will learn about how to manage PHP projects dependencies using composer.

In modern PHP development composer has become an indispensable tool
that has aided the rapid development of PHP Language.

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP (a tool used for installing, updating and managing libraries that your project depends on).

It is used in almost all modern PHP frameworks such as Symfony, CakePHP and Laravel and composer is one of the most highly recommended tools that solves fundamental issues in many web projects.

Some problems that Composer solves includes:

Resolving dependencies for PHP packages

autoloading solution for PHP packages

keeping all packages updated

Most PHP packages are built on top of other well known PHP packages, a common example are symfony components which forms the bedrock for many PHP frameworks such as Laravel. By using Composer developers can reuse stable PHP libraries and Composer will automatically handle dependency resolution. When you install a package, it will automatically install all the required dependencies for you.

Some of the benefits of using Composer includes:

Quickly integrate libraries from vendors such as AWS, Stripe, Pusher, Algolia, and many others.

Ability to use ready made packages that solve common problems. You need a validation package? search for validation on packagist and get started right away. You need to handle date? Search for Carbon on packagist and get started right away.

Autoload all your files and classes using Composer’s autoload

keeping all packages updated

Composer is an amazing tool that greatly speed up the development of PHP projects. Ready to take your PHP SKILLS to the next level?

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Who is the target audience?

Anyone who wants to learn modern PHP workflow

PHP Developers

Web Developers

Companies that wants to upskill PHP their developers to boost productivity

In this lecture you will learn how to use the two packages or libraries (Carbon: A simple PHP DateTime API and Swift Mailer: PHP Mail API) that we installed in the last lecture in your project easily.

How to use PHP Libraries Installed with Composer

12:30

In this lecture you will learn about three different methods of leveraging composer autoloading feature.

Autoloading Classes and Files with Composer

16:07

In this lecture you will learn how to install dependencies that are only required during development.

Installing Development Dependencies with Composer

03:36

In this lecture you will learn how to update dependencies installed with composer and also how to update composer itself.

Updating Project Dependencies with Composer

03:25

In this lecture, I will introduce you to some useful composer commands, you will learn how to update specific dependencies, update lock file using update command, remove specific dependencies from your project and how to set composer config option. You will also learn to update and use a library when there is a major release that requires you to make changes to your code.

More Composer Commands

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Project - Creating and Publishing a Library to Packagist.org

10 Lectures
01:01:05

In this video I'll give a brief overview of the package that we will be creating and reorganize the current working directory.

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